'Fairhaven' Book Reading with Author Jan Lee
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"The climate has already been destroyed" "The elections are going badly" "There is no future"
These are the messages that appear most often in the news and online. The result? Climate anxiety is now rampant among teens and young adults, and has even been identified in children as young as 8 years old. How can we stay optimistic and involved in the face of these challenges? Genevieve Hilton (pen name, Jan Lee), co-author of the recently-launched novel "Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism,” will share why it still makes sense to stay optimistic, what solutions are coming up on the horizon, and how popular fiction can be a tool to change history.
About the Book
Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism, follows the path of Grace Chan, born in Penang, Malaysia. She has experienced the dire consequences of climate change personally and is taking action borne both of hope and desperation. Unlike most ‘cli fi’ novels, which present apocalyptic scenarios for the future, Fairhaven envisions in an engrossing, readily-accessible story for general readers how a range of practical climate adaptation and mitigation solutions could work when fully implemented. These include land reclamation, carbon sequestration, rebuilding ocean fishing stocks, and even re-freezing the Arctic.
About the Author
Genevieve Hilton has worked in corporate affairs and sustainability in the Asia Pacific region since 1994. She previously led ESG and communications in Asia Pacific for Lenovo, as well as Corporate Citizenship and External Communications Asia Pacific for BASF. Since taking a step back from the corporate world in 2022, she has become a full-time sustainability activist and writer. Under the pen name Jan Lee, she is an award-winning science fiction writer. She is the co-author, with Steve Willis, of "Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism", a winner in the Green Stories contest. Her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recognized several times in the “Writers of the Future” contest. She also is Editor-in-Chief of The Apostrophe, the quarterly magazine of the Hong Kong Writers Circle. She currently acts as a senior advisor for a number of environmental and social activist organizations, as well as co-chairing the Energy & ESG Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong.
Join us for this unique chance to network, learn more from this award-winning author, listen to book reading excerpts, and enjoy a time of Q&A!
